Have you had your JOY JUICE today? There are many different flavors but we can
always find something suits our individual taste!
Papa Pat
and I have six little grandjoys! Each of
them is special, but every one is different! Some like to eat fruit; some won’t
touch it! The girls like to play tea
party and ballet; the boys much prefer baseball and trucks and tractors. When choosing gifts for them at Christmas or
birthdays, we carefully seek out things that we know will bring them pleasure.
There’s a
song that I heard on the radio many years ago that has stuck in my memory bank.
(I don’t really understand why, because so
often REALLY IMPORTANT things seem to be lost forever!) The chorus kept repeating “God ain’t never
had a grandchild; only a child will do!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiajMiJvz5g
The message
conveyed in the song was that each person has to make his/her own decision to
follow Christ. We can’t get into heaven
based on the faith of our parents or grandparents. God wants each of us to decide to follow
after Him. You see, as much as I’d like to give the gift of salvation to our
grandchildren, ONLY God can offer that! Yes, we can teach about God, but each
person has to decide for themselves.
Have you
made that most important decision…to follow hard after Christ? If not, take care of that right now and ask
Jesus into your heart. Then share that joy with your children and
grandchildren. That’s a gift that keeps
on giving and one that will encourage your family to seek that sweet JOY in the
Lord! “Every good and perfect gift is
from above…” James 1:17.
Let’s
open our individual gifts of JOY today and see how we can use them to bring JOY
to others!
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